OP said that you should be asking "Photoshop using professionals" if there was a tool that is equal to Photoshop, my point was that asking only "Photoshop using professionals" wouldn't give clear picture to how other tools compare to Photoshop. You should also ask people who do similar tasks (e.g. retouching) with other tools, Cinepaint users were used as an example of such, niche or not.
I certainly hope they don't that that on CRTs... And why I can understand sub-pixel AA the sub-pixel placement in the menu-bar (look at 'i', 'f' and 'n') should make the letters look slightly different even on the intended device... At least it's clear that the window text isn't rendered by the same engine as the menu bar text, the windows seems to have freetype with settings I hadn't used in ages, that's why I didn't recognize it.
For anyone to spend £500 (or however much Photoshop CS2 is these days, and I'd guess it is around the £500 mark) on a piece of software, you'd like to think they've done some analysis previously.
You would, but there are enough people whop just buy the latest version of the "industry standard" and don't bother to even look at anything else. Fact is that just because someone is a professional does not mean that he is an expert in his field, just that he is good enough to make a living in it.
So what alternative tool, specifically for web design imaging that would help out the professional graphic designer more than Photoshop, would you suggest?
I'm not a graphics professional, but seeing that the main shortcomings of GIMP (at least as stated by Photoshop users) is lack of CMYK and 16bit channel support I'd said it at least should be tried if you don't need those features.
GIMP can't do more then 8bits per channel and non-RGBA color spaces. Often heard complaints of Photoshop uses include the the lack of adjustment layers and lack of action recording (but you get powerfull scripting). It all depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it.
In the OP you argued that Photoshop is popular because it's not specific. May it be that people spend so much on Photoshop because they don't know that their specific requirements might be better served by a less known tool--when in doubt get the biggest hammer. But on the other hand maybe CMYK actualy is needed for web design...
The menu bar at the top of the screen is a typical example of OS X font rendering, the stuff inside the windows is probably rendered by OS X, but could be done by Freetype or a band of trained dwarves for all I know.
I was talking about both the menubar and the window font, IMHO they both share poor grid alignment.
As far as I can understand you are looking for session management, GNOME has had that for some time, try to check the "Save current setup" checkbox on the logout dialog.
Of course, the situation could be further improved by making the pallette windows use the small/thin/toolbox style window borders, and having them automatically hide and show themselves when a Gimp document window loses and gains the focus.
It works like this when you set the window hints for the dialogs (and toolbox) to "Utility window", but AFAIK that is buggy under windows.
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Actually I can't imagine why I would need such a feature, that is propably because I have never used it. The GIMP developers might be in the same situation, I suggest you make a feature request.
I was talking about both the window font and the menu bar on top of the screen. I'm certainly not seeing rendering anything like the stuff in the windows with the freetype autohinter.
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There is probably also third party licensed code they have to strip, just like with Blender and other liberated programs.
Try the FAQ.
OP said that you should be asking "Photoshop using professionals" if there was a tool that is equal to Photoshop, my point was that asking only "Photoshop using professionals" wouldn't give clear picture to how other tools compare to Photoshop. You should also ask people who do similar tasks (e.g. retouching) with other tools, Cinepaint users were used as an example of such, niche or not.
Are junk components from other countries better?
Just curious, why do you need BMPs with alpha channel?
GIMP can't do more then 8bits per channel and non-RGBA color spaces. Often heard complaints of Photoshop uses include the the lack of adjustment layers and lack of action recording (but you get powerfull scripting). It all depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it.
In the OP you argued that Photoshop is popular because it's not specific. May it be that people spend so much on Photoshop because they don't know that their specific requirements might be better served by a less known tool--when in doubt get the biggest hammer. But on the other hand maybe CMYK actualy is needed for web design...
You didn't specify a market, unless you think that "Photoshop using professionals" is a well defined market.
And how exactly does "someone's 2 month effort to port some open source project to OS X" modify the menu bar of OS X?
Why not read the post I was responding to?
As far as I can understand you are looking for session management, GNOME has had that for some time, try to check the "Save current setup" checkbox on the logout dialog.
Actually I can't imagine why I would need such a feature, that is propably because I have never used it. The GIMP developers might be in the same situation, I suggest you make a feature request.
I was talking about both the window font and the menu bar on top of the screen. I'm certainly not seeing rendering anything like the stuff in the windows with the freetype autohinter.
OT: is the font anti-aliasing really that ugly on OS X?
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Then they really do want their reputation back. :-)
Italian? I seriously hope it was written with latin letters for the one who asked that, but I suspect it wasn't...